Shoulder Pain : Symptoms and Treatment

Most of the times shoulder problems can also affects bones in one's body.

The fact is that shoulder pain bothers one in five people in their lives. Pain can hurt you from small injury and can get worsened, if not properly diagnosed. It can sometimes arise suddenly. It can stress up your life right from getting up to sleeping and even leads to depression sometimes.

Most common shoulder problems and their symptoms:

1. Night pain: One feels the peak of the pain, when goes to bed lie down on the affected side.
2. Severe sharp catching pain at the front of the shoulder, up to few seconds.
3. Pain from dangerous physical activities can lead to sudden arise of pain in shoulder.

Immediate Treatment:

Slowly and gently move your arm forward and back. Let them relax. As pain decreases,one can increase number of swings. The duration of the swing can be started from 15 seconds and can be extended up to 3-5 minutes.

Keep your shoulder relaxed and use body motion to swing your arm in small circles. Stand tall and relaxed. Repeat motion and change direction of circles. The duration of the circles should initially be 30 seconds and can be extended up to 3-5 minutes.

Where Does it Hurt?

Pain can vary from mild discomfort to strong pain. It occurs when body tissue becomes inflamed or is damaged. This stimulates local pain sensors which trigger the central nervous system and cause you to feel pain. This is a natural part of the body's defence system and is designed to slow you down to try and help minimise further harm.
The causes of pain are many and varied, but there are a few common conditions that most of us will experience at some stage in our lives.